Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Recent Reads (Benioff, Cook, Coleman, Spiegelman)

From: Steve Novak (Cinefrog@comcast.net)
Date: 25 Jul 2008

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    Thanks...I¹m going to get into it as soon as I finish my present Le Silence de la Pluie (O silencio da chuva) with Inspector Espinosa created by Brazilian author Luis Alfredo Garcia-Rosa...excellent so far...translated and published in English by Picador...some of his books have been reviwed by Mystery Scene...

    Thanks again for the tip and the info. Apparently he¹s originally from Alabama and now lives in NYC...

    Montois

    On 7/24/08 4:51 PM, "cptpipes2000" <cptpipes@hotmail.com> wrote:

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    > Steve asked re: Thomas H. Cook
    >> > Sounds very tempting...can you tells us a bit more about him?...his
    >> > style...his topics...???
    >
    > I am happy to recommend Thomas H. Cook to anyone who enjoys the usual
    > fare we discuss on this list. I consider many of his books as
    > hardboiled and/or as noir as any number of writers we often discuss.
    >
    > A major theme throughout his work is regret, as he often tells stories
    > from the point of view of of an older person in the present who is
    > remembering a tragic event from the past.
    >
    > He wrote several true crime books and a detective series in the 80s,
    > but I think he really hit his stride with EVIDENCE OF BLOOD in 1991.
    > MORTAL MEMORY and THE CHATHAM SCHOOL AFFAIR are from that same era and
    > are also favorites.
    >
    > Of his more recent work, RED LEAVES is probably my favorite.
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